Improvement in apparatus for shaping pantaloons



ELLEN B. VIETVS.

Apparatus for Shaping Pantaloons.

Patented March 24,1874.

Ellen- Viet Uurrnn SrArns ELLEl\T B. VIETS, OF BOSTO, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specifica-tion forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,863, dated March 24, 1874; application filed February 4, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLEN B. VIETS, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mechanism for Shaping Pantaloons; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a transverse section, and Fig. 3 an end elevation, of my improved machine.

In this machine the leg-shaper shown at A is composed mainly of two leg portions, a b, and a foot or instep portion,`o, they being shaped and arranged as shown. The foot or instep portion is iixed to the front leg portion b by a dovetailed tongue, d, and groove c, so as to be readily removable from such part b, which is formed with a shoulder, f, for the part c to abut against. Thin metallic plates or lips g g, fastened to the part a., lap over the joint between the portions c l, so as to support the cloth of the pantaloon-leg, and prevent it getting into the joint; and there is be tween the two parts ab a long wedge, h, to force them asunder. Furthermore, both parts a b, as well as the lap-plates, are perforated with numerous fine holes, i, extending laterally through them, in order to facilitate the escape ot' vapor and the passage of air to the inner surface of the pantaloon-leg when on the shaper. To hold the `two parts a b of the shaper in their proper connection or relation with each other, one may be furnished with pins or dowels to extend from it into corresponding holes made in the other, such pins being arranged in opposite sides of the wedge. A pivot, L', extends from the head of the shaper into a bearing or hole in a standard, Z, erected on or forming part of a carriage, B, supported on a base-board, C, by means of wheels or casters m. A movable rest, D,

placed on the carriage and underneath the shaper, is to be used to sustain the latter while a pantaloon-leg is in the act of being ironed or 'smoothed by a hat-iron. The baselooard C is punctured with numerous holes, n, to receive the prongs o o of a holder, E, hinged to the side of the carriage, and formed as shown.

lVith the holder and holes in the base-board, the shaper-carriage may be supported or held in various positions, in order, as the shaper may require, to bring the pantaloon-leg under the action of the smoothing-iron, which is to be supposed to be arranged over the shaper and automatically supported, so as to enable it to be readily moved to and fro by an operative. If preferable to the holder, bolts may be applied to the ends ofthe carriage to work with the holes in the base-board.

I do not claim a hollow metallic former provided with perforations and used with steam, as described in the United States Patent No. 85,060, my pantaloon-shaper having its sections without chambers to receive steam.

I claim- 1. The ventilating pantaloon-shaper A, made of the solid sections a b o, provided with numerous holes going laterally through them, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The base-board G, provided with numerous holes, n, disposed in it as shown, in combination with the shaper A and carriage B, and the double-hinged holder E, applied to such carriage, all being to operate as described.

3. The pautaloou-leg shaper composed of the legs and instep portions `al b o, the wedge h, and the lap-plates g g, arranged and applied substantially as set forth.

ELLEN B. VIETS.

'Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

